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Sinister South

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    Sally Hodkin: 500 Yards From Home | The Nicola Edgington Case

    03.06.2026 | 2 godz. 11 min.
    On the morning of 10th October 2011, 58-year-old Sally Hodkin left her house in Bexleyheath for her usual walk to work. She was 500 yards from her own front door when she was attacked and killed by Nicola Edgington, a woman who had murdered her own mother six years earlier and had been released back into the community by the NHS.

    In the hours before Sally's death, Edgington had told police she was dangerous, walked out of a psychiatric unit, and begged multiple services to help her. Nobody listened.

    This week Rachel takes Hannah through every missed opportunity, every form that wasn't sent and every door that should have been locked. It's a long one, but every minute of it matters.
    Trigger warnings: fatal stabbing, mental health crisis, drug use, miscarriage & graphic violence.
    Sources include:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-46022330
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-40378509
    https://www.england.nhs.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2017/06/Report-of-the-independent-investigation-into-the-care-and-treatment-of-Ms-A.pdf
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21321005
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Edgington
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66842327
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-21652436
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21195602
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24868749
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21653018
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21260313
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21374967
    https://www.hundredfamilies.org/independent-investigation-hodkin-family-statement/
    https://www.itv.com/news/london/2023-09-20/victims-family-warns-she-will-kill-again-as-conviction-could-be-downgraded
    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/mar/09/sally-hodkin-nhs-mental-health
    https://www.london-now.co.uk/news/25968695.bexleyheath-killer-nicola-edgington-loses-murder-conviction-appeal/
    https://www.channel4.com/news/suspect-left-mental-health-unit-before-stabbing
    https://murderpedia.org/female.E/e/edgington-nicola.htm
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-46034803
    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/nicola-edgington-meat-cleaver-murder-manslaughter-court-of-appeal-b1107644.html
    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2874993/police-in-100k-bid-to-cover-up-murder-of-gran-by-mental-health-patient-who-pleaded-to-be-sectioned/
    https://www.hundredfamilies.org/sally-hodkin-memorial-match-2017/
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15280814
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/17/nhs-pays-psychotic-killers-to-give-health-advice/
    Support the show
    Thanks for tuning in! If you loved diving into the dark corners of South London with us, don't forget to hit that subscribe button to never miss an episode of "Sinister South."

    Also, follow us on Instagram @SinisterSouthPodcast for sneak peeks, behind-the-scenes content, and more cheeky banter, or www.sinistersouthpod.co.uk. Remember, every crime tells a story... and South is the best side of the river... 

    Produced and hosted by Hannah Williams & Rachel Baines
    Mixed & edited by Purple Waves Sound (A.K.A Will)
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    Five Feet of Water: The Unsolved Death of Mary Clarke

    27.05.2026 | 1 godz. 3 min.
    This week, we go back to 1831 and the Croydon Canal, where two empty boats were found drifting on still water. A week later, the body of a pregnant woman surfaced. Her name, or at least the name history gives us, was Mary Clarke.
    Mary had been seen days earlier preparing to meet the father of her unborn child. She was dressed in a fine cotton gown, a black silk cloak and a white straw bonnet, with a small key in her pocket that remains one of the most frustrating details of the case. But despite her injuries, despite the missing companion who vanished from the record, and despite the two unnamed men last seen with her, the inquest returned a verdict of “found drowned”.
    Nearly 200 years later, we’re left with a woman no one claimed, a canal that no longer exists, and a question that still hasn’t been answered: who put Mary Clarke in the water?
    This episode includes discussion of pregnancy, suicide, violence against women, murder, drowning and historical attitudes towards unmarried pregnant women. 
    Support the show
    Thanks for tuning in! If you loved diving into the dark corners of South London with us, don't forget to hit that subscribe button to never miss an episode of "Sinister South."

    Also, follow us on Instagram @SinisterSouthPodcast for sneak peeks, behind-the-scenes content, and more cheeky banter, or www.sinistersouthpod.co.uk. Remember, every crime tells a story... and South is the best side of the river... 

    Produced and hosted by Hannah Williams & Rachel Baines
    Mixed & edited by Purple Waves Sound (A.K.A Will)
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    Andrea Troupe: The Girl in Warwick Gardens

    20.05.2026 | 1 godz. 23 min.
    This week, after a truly chaotic opening involving a pork pie-related road traffic incident, pocket hummus at the Palladium, Paul McCartney’s Meat Free Mondays, and the questionable social etiquette of bringing a meze board into a theatre, we turn to the heart breaking unsolved murder of 16-year-old Andrea Troupe.
    In May 1983, Andrea was found dead in Warwick Gardens, Peckham. She had been stabbed more than 12 times and was later revealed to have been pregnant, something her family had not known. More than 40 years later, nobody has ever been charged with her murder.
    Andrea’s case sits against the backdrop of 1980s South London, a time of deep mistrust between Black communities and the police, following the New Cross house fire and the Brixton uprising. It also becomes tangled in the disturbing story of convicted double murderer Michelle Smithyman, whose reported confessions raised even more questions than they answered.
    This is a story about a young girl whose life was brutally taken, a family left without answers, and a case that still deserves attention.
    Sources include: 
    https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/brother-pleads-for-help-to-find-killer-of-sister-37-years-ago/
    http://www.blackkalendar.nl/c/4016/John%20Michael%20Smithyman
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34712868
    https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/murderer-confesses-part-fire-killed-22027197
    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/double-murderer-confessed-killing-girl-25561274
    https://crimeimmemorial.com/2024/09/11/andrea-troupe/
    http://www.unsolved-murders.co.uk/murder-content.php?key=8371&termRef=Andrea+Troupe
    https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/13944316.michael-smithyman-who-murdered-the-mother-of-his-child-in-meopham-may-have-killed-13-others-according-to-bbc-report/
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/audio_video/programmes/panorama/transcripts/transcript_03_03_97.txt
    https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-13324293/Double-murderer-hold-key-solving-1981-New-Cross-fire-Killer-serving-life-told-cops-mystery-teen-started-house-blaze-killed-13-black-partygoers-Britains-notorious-unsolved-mass-murder.html
    https://www.meopham-pc.gov.uk/content/meopham-chronology-0
    http://www.tmg-uk.org/did-met-police-halt-new-cross-fire-investigation/
    https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2017/03/01/new-cross-fire-victims-cousin-demands-new-enquiry/
    https://www.newsdons.com/2021/10/31/double-murderer-confesses-part-in-unsolved-new-cross-fire/
    Support the show
    Thanks for tuning in! If you loved diving into the dark corners of South London with us, don't forget to hit that subscribe button to never miss an episode of "Sinister South."

    Also, follow us on Instagram @SinisterSouthPodcast for sneak peeks, behind-the-scenes content, and more cheeky banter, or www.sinistersouthpod.co.uk. Remember, every crime tells a story... and South is the best side of the river... 

    Produced and hosted by Hannah Williams & Rachel Baines
    Mixed & edited by Purple Waves Sound (A.K.A Will)
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    The Cycling Cop and the Clapham Execution: PC Patrick Dunne & William Danso

    13.05.2026 | 1 godz. 21 min.
    Welcome back, Trevors! It's season four and we are BACK, although you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise given the chaos of recording this one (third intro, second go at the case, Hannah's suitcase touring Luton solo). Stick with us.
    This week, Hannah takes us to a quiet Wednesday night in October 1993, when a 44 year old former maths teacher turned beat bobby cycled onto Cato Road in Clapham. PC Patrick Dunne never made it home. Neither did his neighbour William Danso, a Ghanaian doorman and father of five, gunned down in his own hallway for being good at his job.
    The man who pulled the trigger was Gary Lloyd Nelson, a 24 year old gangster nicknamed Tyson, with a fuse so short he'd fired five shots at a van driver for overtaking him. The evidence was staggering. The CPS dropped it anyway. What followed was a 12 year fight by two families who refused to let the system forget.
    Settle in.
    Sources for this case include:
    https://thepolicememorialtrust.org/pc-patrick-dunne/
    https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/feb/18/ukguns.rosiecowan
    https://www.londonremembers.com/subjects/pc-patrick-dunne
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4717168.stm
    https://x.com/metpoliceuk/status/1065279526656241664
    https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/52225/pc-patrick-dunne
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1510792/Gangster-who-gunned-down-Pc-is-sent-to-jail-for-35-years.html
    https://murderpedia.org/male.N/n/nelson-gary-lloyd.htm#google_vignette
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/roadrage-driver-gets-eight-years-for-gun-attacks-1596553.html
    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/gangster-jailed-for-pc-death-may-have-killed-four-others-a3293531.html
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hijVRJrS9VA
    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kQCD9LFV2Qs
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4703356.stm
    Support the show
    Thanks for tuning in! If you loved diving into the dark corners of South London with us, don't forget to hit that subscribe button to never miss an episode of "Sinister South."

    Also, follow us on Instagram @SinisterSouthPodcast for sneak peeks, behind-the-scenes content, and more cheeky banter, or www.sinistersouthpod.co.uk. Remember, every crime tells a story... and South is the best side of the river... 

    Produced and hosted by Hannah Williams & Rachel Baines
    Mixed & edited by Purple Waves Sound (A.K.A Will)
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    Bludgeoned in Bed: The West Norwood Lodging Murder of Donald MacPherson and Luciano Schiano

    24.04.2026 | 1 godz. 4 min.
    In October 2009, two men were brutally murdered inside a flat in West Norwood, South London. Donald MacPherson, a Scottish chef and grandfather, and Luciano Schiano, a familiar face on Streatham High Street where he sold The Big Issue, were attacked with a level of violence detectives later said “beggared description.”
    Before we get into the grim detail though, there’s the usual warm-up: Han having to tense herself up all over again after our trip to what can only be described as a home for the bewildered – complete with ratatouille and couscous. Then we dive into the case itself, side quests and all.
    Sources for this episode include:
    https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/4705627.daughters-of-west-norwood-double-murder-victim-make-appeal-to-find-killer
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-10644912
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10379097
    https://stevekeogh.com/books
    https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/south-london-double-murder-flat-looked-like-an-abattoir-6723775.html
    https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/murdered-chef-in-wrong-place-at-wrong-time-55ht0v3ss3q
    https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/family-tell-of-heartbreak-at-murder-of-chef-1064391
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/two-guilty-of-savage-murder-of-chef-and-flatmate-2026332.html
    Support the show
    Thanks for tuning in! If you loved diving into the dark corners of South London with us, don't forget to hit that subscribe button to never miss an episode of "Sinister South."

    Also, follow us on Instagram @SinisterSouthPodcast for sneak peeks, behind-the-scenes content, and more cheeky banter, or www.sinistersouthpod.co.uk. Remember, every crime tells a story... and South is the best side of the river... 

    Produced and hosted by Hannah Williams & Rachel Baines
    Mixed & edited by Purple Waves Sound (A.K.A Will)
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O Sinister South
Join Rachel and Hannah on the Sinister South Podcast as they explore the shadowy corners of South London. Each episode digs into the gritty true crime stories that have left their mark on the local streets of South London. They’ll introduce you to the victims and dissect the mysteries while giving you a taste of the places these dramas unfolded. It’s not all doom and gloom; Rach and Han also have plenty of nonsense to chat about! So whether you're a true crime buff or just curious about the darker tales from their neck of the woods, pull up a chair, tune in and join the mischief!Want to get in touch with us, or request an episode? You can email us here: sinistersouthpodcast@gmail.com
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